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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.

Niels Bohr

How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
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Hope Progress Thinking Wonderful
The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
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Greatness Ideas One Liner
Nothing exists until it is measured.
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Existence One Liner
Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
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Material Property Science
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning Science
Truth and clarity are complementary.
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One Liner Science Truth
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way
The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
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Life Philosophy Wisdom
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
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Language Poetry Science
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.
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Learning Nature Theory Thinking Wrong
One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it.
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Creation Force Science Value World
When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.
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Drama Existence Forget Life Ourselves Peace Search
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.

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